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Waiting For the Ball
by Pat Bertram
views: 53 | rating: 10 | comments: 18
December 01, 2008 01:21 PM EST -- Originally, my first book (More Deaths Than One) was going to be released in September and the second (A Spark of Heavenly Fire) in October, then both were going to be released at the beginning . . . more
January 17, 2008 10:20 PM EST -- For most of my life, the view from this writer's window was a lonely one. Though it wasn't without its magic, it was distinctly lacking in  human warmth. As a professional waitress . . . more
May 30, 2007 02:45 PM EDT -- Book lovers still reeling from cutbacks at newspaper book sections have a new reason to be upset: Amazon.com is reducing space for book reviews too. Amazon is cutting the number of book reviews displayed . . . more
June 22, 2008 02:00 AM EDT -- You probably know that if you accidentally type, say, aobut or Febuary in a Word document, squiggly little red underlining will alert you to your mistake. Then you just select the offending word and . . . more
July 27, 2007 12:57 PM EDT -- QUESTION: I'm looking for new ways to market my book. I published through Lulu Press and then did some nationwide radio interviews. I had some sales, but when I'm not marketing, the sales stop. . . . more
August 02, 2007 02:07 PM EDT -- Amazon.com will provide free advance copies of books, movies and music to customers who agree to post reviews of the new releases on the company's Web site. The program, Amazon Vine, will permit negative . . . more
September 04, 2007 11:12 AM EDT -- From THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE by Terry Shaw. Copyright © 2007 by Terry Shaw. Reprinted by permission of Touchstone Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.   Prologue It was three a.m. . . . more
Good Comma
by John L.
views: 64 | rating: 10 | comments: 15
June 27, 2008 06:04 PM EDT -- The comma is probably the most commonly used punctuation mark in the English language. Or maybe it's second after the period; I'm not sure. But I think I can say with certainty that it's the . . . more
May 21, 2007 01:03 PM EDT -- Electronic books, or e-books, haven’t gotten much traction with consumers. People don’t enjoy reading extended passages of text on a computer screens, and there’s no popular e-book reader . . . more
July 19, 2007 10:06 PM EDT -- Well, isn't this just classic: A Jane Austen fan submitted samples of her writing to publishers and agents, but got nothing but rejections and a bit of ill-informed commentary. David Lassman typed . . . more
November 19, 2007 01:47 PM EST -- Okay, I have had it with hte Gather email. Can people stop sending blast emails to my Gather mail with notices of their article or requests to read their contest entry and vote? If you are connected . . . more
The Dialogue Bog
by John L.
views: 64 | rating: 10 | comments: 17
June 19, 2008 02:07 PM EDT -- The Dialogue Bog   The dialogue bog is where many beginning fiction writers seem to get caught. It's a set of common dialogue problems that mark you as an amateur. They're easy mistakes . . . more
Apostrophic Proportions
by John L.
views: 63 | rating: 10 | comments: 8
June 22, 2008 08:58 PM EDT -- In my earlier post 22 Reasons Not To Trust Spell-Check , I gave you a test: Replace each (?) with the appropriate word from the following list.   I know (?) no way that Porsche could be (?). . . . more
Apostro-Free Advice
by John L.
views: 43 | rating: 10 | comments: 14
June 23, 2008 04:54 PM EDT -- In the last post I offered you a challenge: to type the word 'til in MS Word . . . with a properly curving apostrophe. If you tried it, you probably typed 'til (note the mark is actually . . . more
November 01, 2007 11:33 PM EDT -- Every year in November, an increasing number of word-intoxicated, aspring novelists, commit to the fun, the madness, the sheer exhilaration of trying to produce a novel in a month. If you're a writer, . . . more
Release Of My First Novel!
by Christle G.
views: 21 | rating: 10 | comments: 4
November 02, 2008 11:24 AM EST --             Hey everyone!  Just wanted to let you know that my first novel, Second Chances , will be released November 3rd in e-book format . . . more
June 16, 2008 11:23 AM EDT -- I ended my last post with a curious sentence:   But was and were , along with all the to-be verbs, are the source of many grammatical misunderstandings.   Or, simplified: . . . more
July 18, 2007 04:02 PM EDT -- It’s pretty simple and costs nothing for self-publishers to obtain a Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) before publication. Library of Congress numbers are helpful if you want to sell your . . . more
October 06, 2007 02:41 PM EDT -- An Author’s Guide to Hand Selling Books Part 1: Overview by David A. Rozansky, Publisher, Flying Pen Press Readers, Writers & Royalties columnist October 6, 2007  [This is the first article . . . more
February 10, 2008 08:53 PM EST -- Ever mix dinner with a discussion of bones, bodies and fire? That's what we did Friday night in Knoxville. But don't worry. It was for a good cause -- a fundraiser for the Friends of Literacy. . . . more
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